American kidnapping survivors of Mexican Cartel said captors tried to force them to have sex with each other.
The pair of American survivors of last month’s deadly Mexican cartel kidnapping have revealed harrowing details about the ordeal, including how they say their captors put guns to their heads and tried to force them to have sex with each other.
LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams told CNN’s Anderson Cooper during a Tuesday interview that they are still reeling from the attack that left their friends Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard, as well as another bystander, dead.
The four American friends were shot at and kidnapped by gunmen in a brazen ambush in Northern Mexico on March 3. The group traveled in a rented white minivan from South Carolina into the Mexico border city of Matamoros for a reported planned cosmetic surgery for Washington McGee. Gunfire abruptly started after the group crossed the US-Mexico border and turned down a side street, the survivors said.
Williams said that while they were in captivity, they were blindfolded at times, and the kidnappers wore red plastic “Diablo masks.” The captors put “guns to our head, telling us not to look up,” he said. The two survivors told CNN they were blindfolded and taken to several different locations by the cartel members in devil masks before they were rescued days later, on March 7.
At one point, Williams said their captors “tried to make us have sex with each other” — but the duo told them that they were brother and sister.
It is unclear if the pair are actually related. “They were putting the guns to our head, telling us to not look up, things like that,” Williams said.
The two survivors recalled exchanging emotional goodbyes with their friends while they were being held in the back of the pickup truck.
“That’s where Shaeed said, ‘I love y’all, and I’m gone.’ And he died right there,” Williams said tearfully. “He said he loved us and he was gone. It was the last thing he did.”
Washington McGee, a mother of six, also remembered telling Woodard she was sorry moments before he died.
She was later put in a room with Brown, who was badly wounded before he died.
Discover more from KossyDerrickent
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
